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Photograph of Spade Ranch Store
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Spade Ranch Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Spade Ranch Store, currently known as Morgan's Store, is a general store in the hamlet of Ellsworth, Nebraska providing supplies and services to area ranchers and passing motorists. Built in 1898 as a company store as well as the main offices for the expansive Spade Ranch, the store was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.”

Wikipedia article Spade Ranch Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Sheridan County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. W Side of SHWY 27/ Lot 5 of Ellsworth, Ellsworth, 69340
  • When was it listed? September 2010
  • Category. building
  • Precinct. South Sheridan precinct
  • National Register reference number. 10000629 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Storms near this property

60 of 91 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellsworth, the town this property stands in, in 91 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 68 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindEllsworth$12,000Thunderstorm winds tore off shingles on several roofs in the Ellsworth area.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindEllsworth$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 80 MPH destroyed an outbuilding and uprooted trees at this location.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindEllsworth$10,000Several power poles were blown down.
August 2007HailEllsworth$8,000Hail of varying sizes from pea to golf ball fell east of Ellsworth and was accompanied by heavy rain that reduced visibility to less than 1000 feet.
May 2001HailEllsworth$5,000no account filed
June 2000HailEllsworth$5,000no account filed
August 2002HailEllsworth$3,000no account filed
June 1999HailEllsworth$3,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEllsworth$2,000Thunderstorm winds at 60 mph blew out windows and tore off roof shingles.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindEllsworth$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 60 MPH, resulted in tree damage at this location.
April 2007HailEllsworth$1,000no account filed
April 2007HailEllsworth$1,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindEllsworth$1,000no account filed
August 2025HailEllsworth-Quarter size hail with 40 to 50 mph winds reported at this location.
April 2025HailEllsworth-Report via spotter network.
July 2023HailEllsworth-A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail near Ellsworth.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-A trained spotter estimated 70 mph wind gusts near Ellsworth.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-Public estimated winds of 60 to 70 mph.
July 2023Tornado (EFU)Ellsworth-Tornado touched down over open country just south of Ostrander Road in rural Sheridan County. The tornado then traveled approximately one and a half miles southeast, lifting just north of 365th trail. Multiple videos and photos were received of the tornado and no damage was observed.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-Thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-Thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2021HailEllsworth-Hail size was estimated as quarter size.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-A cooperative weather observer estimated winds of at least 70 mph and reported trees bent over and a loss of power.
July 2019HailEllsworth-Public reported hail up to ping pong ball size.
July 2019HailEllsworth-Public reported quarter size hail.
September 2019HailEllsworth-Nickel to quarter sized hail reported at this location.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-No damage reported.
July 2016Funnel CloudEllsworth-Funnel reported.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-Public estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2016Tornado (EF0)Ellsworth-At 1556 MST a brief tornado touched down in rural Sheridan County with no damage reported. The tornado was rated an EF-0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale with a peak wind of 65 MPH.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-Tree limb damage occurred at this location.
June 2011HailEllsworth-Public reported hail up to half dollar size.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-A forty foot tall cedar tree was uprooted as well.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-A Nebraska Department of Roads automated sensor on Highway 2 measured the strong wind gust.
August 2007HailEllsworth-Cooperative observer reported pea to quarter size hail mixed with heavy rain but very little wind.
August 2025HailEllsworth-no account filed
August 2024HailEllsworth-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-no account filed
June 2024HailEllsworth-no account filed
September 2024HailEllsworth-no account filed
September 2024HailEllsworth-no account filed
June 2023HailEllsworth-no account filed
August 2023HailEllsworth-no account filed
June 2022HailEllsworth-no account filed
June 2022HailEllsworth-no account filed
August 2020HailEllsworth-no account filed
August 2020HailEllsworth-no account filed
August 2019HailEllsworth-no account filed
June 2019HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2018HailEllsworth-no account filed
July 2017HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2015HailEllsworth-no account filed
June 2014HailEllsworth-no account filed
July 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed
July 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
District #119 North School0.4 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000629 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheridan CountyAll 8 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.